I never felt that Debussy's "notes" were an absolute, cerebral, defined property. D's notes are more like pitch-zones in which things and emotions take place. So that the first Bb is stretched out to include the buffer-zone around it. It is, after all, slurred together with these borders of the pitch-zone. So this wasn't a whole-toned scale in the "traditional" sense, but was more Frank Sinatra sliding around but having a center. I'd love to read, hear or see a video of a musician who sees it this way. Can you help me? Thanks for your interesting talk.
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I never felt that Debussy's "notes" were an absolute, cerebral, defined property. D's notes are more like pitch-zones in which things and emotions take place. So that the first Bb is stretched out to include the buffer-zone around it. It is, after all, slurred together with these borders of the pitch-zone. So this wasn't a whole-toned scale in the "traditional" sense, but was more Frank Sinatra sliding around but having a center. I'd love to read, hear or see a video of a musician who sees it this way. Can you help me? Thanks for your interesting talk.